Hendricks County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Hendricks County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hendricks County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 196 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% more time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 2.4 minutes.

Hendricks County holds about 2.7% of Indiana's population but accounts for roughly 3.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hendricks County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,430 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Hendricks County	23.5 min	47.0 min	196 hrs/yr	$6,074	1,824
Indiana	21.1 min	42.2 min	176 hrs/yr	$5,455	1,308
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

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On average, it takes 23.5 minutes to get to work in Hendricks County. That's 5% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 70% of counties in Indiana

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hendricks County

• Car: 83.3%
• Worked at Home: 14.8%
• Other: 0.9%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Hendricks County: 10.6 times less than the Indiana average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Hendricks County: 6.9 times less than the Indiana average (0.1% vs 0.6%).

Biking is unusually rare in Hendricks County: 3.8 times less than the Indiana average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Hendricks County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hendricks County get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	94.5%	3.3%	1.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	94.7%	3.1%	1.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	95.0%	2.9%	1.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	95.0%	3.1%	1.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	95.1%	3.0%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	95.3%	3.2%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	95.2%	3.6%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	94.3%	4.1%	0.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	93.8%	4.3%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	93.0%	5.0%	1.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.9%	5.8%	1.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.5%	8.4%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.9%	9.8%	1.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.4%	11.7%	1.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.8%	13.2%	0.9%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	83.3%	14.8%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 95.3%. Overall it fell from 94.5% in 2009 to 83.3% in 2024, down 11.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 10 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hendricks County: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 14.8% in 2024, up 11.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Hendricks County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hendricks County?

The bars show when commuters in Hendricks County leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Indiana for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Hendricks County5.0% Indiana6.7%	5.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Hendricks County3.4% Indiana4.5%	3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Hendricks County5.9% Indiana5.6%	5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Hendricks County9.1% Indiana8.5%	9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Hendricks County12.3% Indiana9.9%	12.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Hendricks County14.7% Indiana13.8%	14.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Hendricks County12.9% Indiana12.3%	12.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Hendricks County10.7% Indiana9.6%	10.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Hendricks County4.6% Indiana4.4%	4.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Hendricks County4.6% Indiana5.2%	4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Hendricks County2.3% Indiana2.5%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Hendricks County1.2% Indiana1.2%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Hendricks County5.9% Indiana7.5%	5.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Hendricks County7.5% Indiana8.0%	7.5%

Hendricks County Indiana Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Hendricks County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Indiana. Early starts are less common than in Indiana: 14.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Indiana: 50.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.5%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Hendricks County, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Hendricks County Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Hendricks County next to Indiana and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

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• Indiana
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Hendricks County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hendricks County were on the road by 7:29 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:27 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Hendricks County now leave 9 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Hendricks County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hendricks County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.5 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.8%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hendricks County is 23.5 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau